Skirts Collection (page 9)

Romania - Rich folk of Rucar
A portrait of the Rich Class at the Port of Rucar on the Olt River, Arges County, Romania Date: 1913

Country Women in the Lake Maggiore Region of Italy
Country ( Peasant ) Women in the Lake Maggiore Region of Italy, holding baskets of fruit they have jusat picked from the plants in the background. Date: circa 1910s

A group of Albanian men in National Costume in Montenegro Date: circa 1910s

Fashion for the evening 1895
Three women wearing enormous leg-of-mutton sleeved blouse with bulging bodice, gored skirt and tiny waist. Date: 1895

View of a ball from below
A quite remarkable and rather wonderful French postcard presenting the view of a ball as could be seen if one were looking upward through a glass floor! Date: circa 1910s

Mini Window Shopper
The dangers of bending over in a mini dress at the Summer Sales! Date: late 1960s

Shiny Mini Dress
A black model in a shiny Space Age mini dress - very Star Trek ! Date: 1967

Psychadelic Mini Dress
A colourful Pyschadelic mini dress, worn with a blue beret and white patent leather boots - So Sixties! Date: 1968

Can Can Dancers
Any " can can" girl who can " can can" can " can can" here!! Date: circa 1930s

English Woman of 1710
Hooped skirts are all very well, but this is ridiculous ! But its what fashion dictates... for the moment Date: circa 1710

Paris Fashions 1915
The new wartime fashion of short full skirts in bold designs & colours, high Louis heeled boots, loose jackets with belts, V -necklines & hats with vertical feathers. Date: 1915

Billowing Skirt 1925
" Keep Your Skirts Down Mary Ann". Mary Ann attempts to hold down a billowing saucer shaped skirt that she wears over several striped under- skirts & a pair of harem pants Date: 1925

Costume / Children / 1880
Boys: knickerbockers, bowler hat, tunic with cape. Girls: low waisted dress with yoke, striped stockings; coat- bodice, kilted or flounced short skirts, trimmed hats. Date: 1880

Dolly Sisters in Diamond Mine tableaux
The Dolly Sisters wearing creations by Jean Patou in the Diamond Mine scene in Paris En Fleurs, Casino de Paris, Paris, 1925 1925

Montana Rose, an American cowgirl

Paris Fashions for September 1859
From left, a highed necked walking dress with one deep flounce at the bottom of the skirt edged with narrow velvet, and five small plaited flounces above also edged with narrow velvet

Two sisters in a garden, Mid Wales
Two sisters pose for their photograph in front of a garden wall, probably in the Mid Wales area. They are wearing full-length skirts and tight-waisted jackets

Sales assistants outside a dress shop
A group of well-presented young women - presumably sales assistants - stand in front of the windows of a dressmakers and outfitters shop

Eleven people in a garden wearing pith helmets -- six men and five women. One of the men is wearing shorts, and another man is in jodhpurs; the women are wearing ankle-length skirts

Man and Woman from Isle of Tanna, New Hebrides
Man and Woman from Isle of Tanna, an island of Vanuatu, New Hebrides. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Young woman in very fancy underwear
A young woman in very fancy underwear, getting dressed beside a fine four-poster bed

Music cover for Godfreys Chilperic Quadrille
Music cover for Charles Godfreys Chilperic Quadrille, based on airs from Herves popular opera buffa (or operetta) Chilperic

New Year Card - Girl with feather in her hat

Croatia - National Folk Costume
Croatia - Two Young women in National Folk Costume, holding decorated bags and wearing striped scarves around their necks

Croatia - Traditional National Costume (3 / 8)
Croatia - Traditional National Costume (3/8) - two women with embroidered white headscarves chatting by a wall facing the coast

Ladies from Greece using a Singer Sewing Machine
Two Ladies and a gentleman from Greece surrounding a Singer Sewing Machine

Dancers from Campanario, in Funchal, Madeira
Dancers belonging to a folklore group from Campanario, performing an old dance in the street in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira

Gaula couple dancing, Funchal, Madeira
Two members of a folklore group from Gaula, seen here dancing in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira. The couple are wearing traditional costume, including black skull caps with points

Boa Nova group couple dancing, Funchal, Madeira
Two members of a Boa Nova folklore group, seen here dancing in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira. They are wearing traditional costume, including black skull caps with points

Three Camacha girls, Funchal, Madeira
Three girls from a folklore group from the village of Camacha, seen here in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira. They appear to be clapping in time to music

Home Guard at St Michaels Mount, Cornwall
A group of men described as Home Guard, in rather curious uniforms at St Michaels Mount in Cornwall

Two young women of Kostel (Podivin), Moravia
Two young women, probably sisters, pose for their photograph in a studio. They are probably from the settlement of Kostel (also known as Podivin) in South Moravia, now in Czechoslovakia

Humourous photographer card
A very silly postcard depicting a photographers subject suffering a rather revealing fate, falling backward over some sticks

Cross-dressing male dancer
An amusing postcard depiction of a cross-dressing male stage performer from the north-west of England in frilly white dancers attire and silk headband

Folies Bergere - dancer
A dancer from the Astronomers Revue at the Folies Bergere, Paris. The dancer is Mademoiselle Geczy, a name that hints of an Eastern European origin

Greece Costumes - Salonica
Four variants of Greek costume from Salonica

American Womens League for Self Defence drilling at the 69th Regiment Quarters, New York

Stiebel, Worth and Paterson designs, 1954
From left; Overskirts were in favour with several designers, worn apron-wise, or in a pannier effect. One of the prettiest was Victor Stiebels young bell-skirted silk afternoon dress in mist

Life / Fashion, shorter skirts 1924
A young female dress maker holding a measure and a pair of scissors, kneels upon a foot stall. Skirts will be shorter this fall

Croatian villagers (Women) - National Costume
Croatian women in the traditional National costume of Croatia, with large skirts and headscarves

Emigrants sighting Australia, 1887
Engraving showing a group of emigrants on the deck, sighting Australia in the distance, 1887. The men are shown dressed in suits and bowler hats, whilst the women wear skirts, jackets, hats and shawls

Women of the Pimo Tribe, 1858
Illustration showing a group of native American Indian women of the Pimo tribe carrying baskets and water vessels on their heads, wearing full wrap around skirts and heavy jewellery

Women of the Papagos Tribe of Native American Indians, 1858
Illustration showing some native American Indian women, of the Papagos tribe, with bows and arrows, wearing wide brimmed hats, cropped tops and skirts

Winter Fashions 1871
Polonaise costumes (made from 1 fabric only) with double skirts. Plaid: over-skirt cut in long points, short fringed mantle. Black: jacket body with pagoda sleeves

Long Trained Skirts 1875
Dresses: cascading trains & jacket bodices (with revers & ruched sleeves or high collar, pointed basque & back-lacing like a corset) & over-skirts in plaid or floral prints

Preliminary Manoeuvres
A show girl, with skirts hoisted to reveal stocking tops, peeping through a stage curtain

Spring fashions for 1925
A colourful design from Paris where the couturiers announced that skirts were to be shorter and a straight slender outline was the most desirable shape for spring 1925

Fashions for the 1890S
Enormous gigot sleeves & gored skirts. A green & black blouse with a large vandyked lace collar that also forms epaulettes. Open bodice & high-necked, pleated blouse

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